Pages

Thursday, March 31, 2011

(This is entry #11 of a series of unknown number – I’ll keep going until I’m done)

This listing is a special request.

If I interpreted the request properly it is:

Are they any ALEC alumni who are currently receiving money

from ALEC Private Sector Member– related PAC’s?

I only did the Senate Alumni Members and this is what I found.

Please pay attention to the dates of the donations by the PAC.

If this is what you are looking for, I am more than happy to start doing some of the US House members.

From the ALEC webpage here is the current Private Sector Board

üMr. W. Preston Baldwin, Centerpoint360 (2011 Chairman)

Private Enterprise Board Members (as of December 1, 2010)

1.Ms. Sano Blocker, Energy Future Holdings

2.Mr. Don Bohn, Johnson & Johnson

3.Mr. Jeff Bond, PhRMA

4.Mr. Bill Carmichael, American Bail Coalition

5.Mr. Derek Crawford, Kraft Foods, Inc.

6.Mr. John Del Giorno, GlaxoSmithKline

7.Mr. Matt Echols, Coca-Cola Company

8.Mr. Jim Epperson, Jr., AT&T Services, Inc.

9.Mr. Michael Hubert, Pfizer Inc

10.Ms. Teresa Jennings, Reed Elsevier, Inc.

11.Mr. Ken Lane, DIAGEO

12.Mr. Kelly Mader, Peabody Energy

13.Mr. Bernie McKay, Intuit, Inc.

14.Mr. Mike Morgan, Koch Industries, Inc.

15.Mr. Kevin Murphy, ExxonMobil Corp.

16.Mrs. Sandra Oliver, Bayer Corporation

17.Mr. David Powers, Reynolds American Inc.

18.Ms. Maggie Sans, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

19.Mr. Russell Smoldon, Salt River Project

20.Mr. Toby Spangler, Altria Client Services, Inc.

21.Mr. Roland Spies, State Farm Insurance Co.

22.Mr. Pat Thomas, United Parcel Service

23.Mr. Jerry Watson, Chairman Emeritus

Due to time constraints - I put parameters on this project.(I can get a little OCD sometimes, so I had to stop at six companies, rather than pulling all 24 – not enough?Too bad!Just picking those 6 ALEC Private Sector Board Member’s companies resulted in a spreadsheet with 2,764 lines of donations.)

“Political Action Committee (PAC) — A popular term for a political committee organized for the purpose of raising and spending money to elect and defeat candidates. Most PACs represent business, labor or ideological interests. PACs can give $5,000 to a candidate committee per election (primary, general or special).”(Source)

I went to http://www.congress.org/and pulled the PAC’s for each of the companies highlighted in red – shown above.I pulled donations to candidates of more than $4,999, for the three election cycles of 2005 – 2010.

Below are US Senate members who received PAC money received from sixALEC Private Sector Board Member Companies.

U.S. Senate – ALEC Alumni

Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO)

No money reported from these specific 6 PACs

Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)

Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)

$8,000

2007-2008

Bayer

Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)

$5,500

2007-2008

Koch

Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)

$5,000

2007-2008

Pfizer

Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)

$5,500

2007-2008

UPS

$24,000

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

$7,000

2007-2008

Pfizer

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

$5,500

2007-2008

UPS

$12,500

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)

$7,000

2007-2008

AT&T

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)

$7,500

2007-2008

Koch

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)

$7,500

2007-2008

UPS

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)

$5,000

2007-2008

Wal-Mart

$27,000

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)

$5,000

2009-2010

AT&T

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)

$5,000

2009-2010

Pfizer

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)

$5,000

2009-2010

UPS

$15,000

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)

$7,500

2005-2006

AT&T

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)

$14,000

2005-2006

Koch

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)

$8,000

2007-2008

AT&T

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)

$9,000

2007-2008

Koch

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)

$5,000

2009-2010

AT&T

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)

$5,000

2009-2010

Bayer

$48,500

Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID)

Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID)

$5,000

2007-2008

AT&T

Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID)

$7,000

2007-2008

Koch

Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID)

$5,000

2007-2008

UPS

$17,000

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

$10,000

2009-2010

Koch

$10,000

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)

$5,000

2007-2008

AT&T

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)

$5,000

2009-2010

AT&T

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)

$6,500

2009-2010

Koch

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)

$7,000

2009-2010

Wal-Mart

$23,500

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

$5,000

2005-2006

UPS

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

$8,000

2007-2008

AT&T

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

$5,000

2007-2008

Koch

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

$5,000

2007-2008

Pfizer

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

$9,500

2007-2008

UPS

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

$5,000

2007-2008

Wal-Mart

$37,500

In addition and more importantly I think these two guys need to be noted. I do not have them on my "Alumni List" but according to a blogger I trust, they are past members of ALEC - link to here to see his proof.